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two powerful storms on opposite side of the world. coming ashore and putting millions was in danger. hurricane florence is made landfall on the u.s. causing storm surges. a fresh blow to donald trump as his campaign chairman agrees to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller russia program. manafort has pleaded guilty to
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two criminal counts. the latest from washington. plus, a global push to eradicate extreme poverty falls short. dw reports from nigeria or the number of people running on less than two dollars per day is on the rise. tonight, hurricane florence has reached the u.s. states of north and south carolina and it has claimed its first victims. a mother and her infant killed after a tree fell on their house. florence, which was downgraded to a category one storm, made landfall on the east coast of the u.s. battering the carolinas with strong winds and heavy rain. the storm is moving slowly and is expected to don't rain on the coast well into the weekend.
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hundreds of thousands of people have lost power. storm surges are being reported and rescue crews are scrambling to save scores of people who have ignored evacuation orders. we are on the ground force in north carolina. we're talking earlier and he said that the backside of the hurricane is starting to make itself felt where you are. >> let me show you what is happening around us right now. the marina behind us has been evacuated. there are no votes here. we are watching a slow-motion flood right or we are standing. this entire area was completely dry half an hour ago. the winds are pushing all of this water towards us and towards the land and the small highway that is behind us.
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right on what is quickly becoming a lake behind me. the situation will only get worse. this community escape the breadth of the hurricane, but we are feeling strong winds and will continue to do so. officials are estimating that this storm will last well into sunday at this point given it slow-motion. >> it does knowledgeably the area. we know over one million people were told to evacuate. i guess not everyone heeded the call. >> there absolutely are people we have been reading and hearing about who did not want to believe that the storm was going to be that bad. of course, we do have to mention there are people who simply cannot leave. elderly and disabled people and people who do not have the means to leave or a shelter in their area. they simply cannot afford to
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stay at a hotel. you don't know how long the hurricane will last. there are people who are undocumented in immigrants who are afraid that if they go to a shelter, they will be exposed and arrested. there are a lot of different reasons for people who did not want to leave the area. they got very lucky. >> we know the storm will last a while. what are authorities saying? >> one of the biggest problems is going to be thflooding. the hurricane has been dumping 10 trillion gallons of water onto north carolina alone. the storm is so slow moving, the conditions we have been seeing are only going to get worse. another big problem will be the
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lack of electricity. there are 500,000 people who are now without power. it will be a challenge for crews to get out to where they are to restore the power. because of the rain and flooding, people who need to be rescued are stuck where they are because crews connected to them. >> thank you. >> on the other side of the planet, a super typhoon is now slamming the northeastern philippines packing winds of well over 200 kilometers per hour. more than 5 million people are a risk for the storm. it evacuation's are now underway. >> the strongest recorded storm so far this year has begun. a super typhoon equivalent to a
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category five hurricane packing winds of 205 kilometers per hour. for reference, hurricane florence is a category 1. this typhoon can lift cars. you can't stand or crawl against this wind. that is how strong it is. in many areas, trees that are in the way could be uprooted. houses can lose their roofs. more than 4 million people are directly in the path. thousands continue to be evacuated. >> i am scared because they said is a very powerful typhoon. more powerful than them most recent monsoon rings. >> people are preparing their houses for the worst of the storm can give including farmers. the typhoon will pass through
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the rice-growing heartland. farmers have been asked to harvest what they can. experts say the storm is as powerful as typhoon in 2013 which left thousands dead and displaced over 5 million. for now, the philippines braces itself. >> it is another blow for u.s. president donald trump. paul manafort pleaded guilty today to two criminal counts as part of a deal to cooperate with robert mueller. mueller is investigating possible collusion between trump's presidential campaign and russia. manafort has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy against the u.s. and to obstructing justice. he was convicted last month on tax fraud charges and was due to
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go on trial in second time on related charges. today's deal means most of this charges have been dropped. our guest is tracking the latest developments from washington dc. manafort pleaded guilty and will now cooperate with the justice department. this is quite a turnaround from the way he approached his previous trial. >> it is a total turnaround. claiming his innocence all these months while they were investigating. after one court has already found him guilty on eight counts of tax and bank fraud end line to the government, this is a big deal and a big blow to the trump administration. he is now willing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller who is investigating whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. now, he will be willing to talk.
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something he has not done in the past. he was quoted as being respected by the president in tweets for not being broken by the government. that is now over. >> we have been saying all day, this is a big blow to the u.s. president. how could this make things more difficult? >> it is going to make things more difficult because paul manafort is not just an a in the campaign. he was the campaign manager. he knows a lot. the prosecution will have lots of questions. or example, what happened at the trump tower meeting where donald trump, jr. got emails and said he would love to get dirt on hillary provided by russians. manafort was part of that meeting. also, how come the republican platform was changed to change
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policies on helping ukraine to not help them as much any longer. these are very important questions in the collusion probe that will not go away. >> which steps can we now expect? we have manafort agreed to testify in any other trials that may come about. >> here is the thing. the mueller probe is not finished. it will continue. that is bad news for this president because we have midterm elections coming up in november. he wants the topic to go away and it is not going away. there are so many unanswered questions no matter how often the president tweets, this is all a witchhunt and there was no collusion. >> thank you. here are other stories making headlines.
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palestinian medical officials say israeli soldiers have killed two palestinians and wounded hundreds more taking part in weekly protests in gaza's border with israel. the israeli military says it used the force necessary to prevent border breaches by 12,000 palestinians masked man offense. residents of serious last rebel held providence have taken streets to protest the assad regime. syrian forces are expected to launch. the u.s. and world powers have warned that in lives 3 million residents face a catastrophe if that happens. the international whaling commission has voted down the japanese bid to lift the ban on commercial whaling. japan will continue to hunt whales by making use of a
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loophole that allows scientific whaling. the hope of escaping poverty and conflict has left millions of migrants from africa and the middle east to seek better lives elsewhere. many turning to europe which saw the peak of the exodus back in 2015. asylum-seekers followed this route here which you see from greece serbia hungary trying to make their way to western europe. this led authorities in hungary to build a fence along the southern border and to imprison migrants who managed to cross it. we have spoken with one man who says he was trying to help his family reached germany but instead he ended up in a hungarian prison. he asked us not to show his face. >> one of hungary's best-known prisoners is waiting to meet me.
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to the government he is a dangerous terrorist. others say he is a political prisoner. he tells me he does not know why he is here. i never understand how one person can be treated this way. >> was terrorism mean to you? >> make bombs, kill people. at least he has hate for other people or other religion. he has to do something from hatred. what hatred do i have? why? >> he is syrian but has lived for several years and cyprus with his wife. in 2015 he set out to help his parents flew to europe. they arrived at the hungarian border the day after it was closed. they were blocked along with hundreds of other refugees who lacked isaac necessities.
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protests broke out. he tried to translate between the police and protesters. when communication breakdown, he joined in throwing rocks. he planned to return to his family and cyprus never made it home. he was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison. >> these people are not peaceful. they don't simply want to go through hungary. they carry a danger and that is every clear and present as of today. >> the court ruled that the attempt to course police violence is an act of terror. >> we do not contest what happened at the border but we don't know what crime constitutes. throwing rocks, even if it is the not thing to do, is not
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terrorism. >> and a statement, the hungarian government defended the decision of the court saying there has been a campaign lasting over a year including the involvement of the international press to prove that he is an innocent man. hungary will continue to protect its borders and defend its christian culture and right to reject immigration. he feels he is a victim of politics. >> who can imagine this thing? you are american. if i an american, with a do this to me? >> this present has been his home for nearly three years. he wants to see his family again. his family lives in germany now as refugees. they were able to take an
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alternate route through europe to apply for asylum. when i meet them, his wife is visiting with their daughters from cyprus. she has been struggling to understand why they singled out her husband for punishment. >> why did they say i am protecting europe? how can you protect europe by putting someone innocent in the jail by saying he is a terrorist? >> when he was arrested, his daughters were four and six years old. when he sees them again, they will be 11 and 13. in the sentence is not reduced. >> time now for business. we will turn the clock back a decade to a data changed, we thought it would change the world forever. >> that date was september 15, 2008. that is when lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy. the event sent everyone from american investors to spanish
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property owners running for cover. bankers found themselves out of work overnight. the lender was a giant but not too big to fail. they had become so involved in mortgage origination that it was basically a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment bank. washington was not willing to say the financial institution, although he did say others. in the aftermath of the lehman brothers collapse, the u.s. administration introduced stricter banking -- banking regulations known as dr. frank. -- dr. frank. president trump has been a critic. critics say erasing restrictions on banks could prompt the next financial crisis. let's go now to the heart of darkness read all began in new york area.
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you talked to former lehman employees. how do they remember those bad days? >> after listening to some of the former staff members, it seems to me that some people on the lower levels of the hierarchy were not aware of how bad the situation was even days before the bank collapsed. one of them told me that 2008 had been a good year for him. for a long time afterwards, people were so coming in to work although they cannot do anything area they were being told not to trade anything and many employees decided to let before everything really went downhill. surely a bank is because that doesn't vanish. is anything left? >> there were two separate bankruptcies. the first is lehman's holding company. the second was what remained of the broker-dealers. 10 years later, both the holding
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company and the broker-dealer are nearing the end of the wind down. the vast majority of claims have been taken care of. of the $1.2 trillion of claims, all the 4.1 million dollars have been resolved. the former holding has returned nearly $125 billion to creditors. some people are still hoping to get money out of lehman's estate. one of the last he claims still outstanding involves 354 lehman executives who had invested some of their paychecks for retirement into the compenensatn plans. this case will probably take more years to resolve. lehman remains the biggest bankruptcy in history. >> thank you. it was the car the divine -- to find a rate -- generation.
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the volkswagen beetle is coming to an end. volkswagen has announced it will halt production in 2019 bringing an end to the 70 year history. >> the four wheeled legend had 22 million units sold. the engine was the sound of germany's postwar economic boom. it all started back in the 1930's. commissioned by the not sees, it was designed. it mainly saw military service during the war. when the fighting finally stopped, the beetle was back. the car sold rapidly around the world. it was an immediate hit in the u.s. even making it to hollywood. it broke record after record. in the engine 55, the one million edell rolled off the
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belt. it runs and runs and runs. and it did until the love affair was over. in the 1960's, the darling of bw lost sex appeal. critics complained about the boring design and high running costs. things look bad for bw. the sought in golf models only just saved it from the break. in 1978, that was it area the end of german production. fans had to import them from abroad. bw continue to run the plant in mexico. in 2003 it was the end. in 1999, a revival happened in the u.s.. the new deal -- beetle.
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the clone was strictly a collectors item. it was known as the people's car well in the past. the new beetle is set to become a thing of the past. volkswagen's stopping production in 2019. >> a global push to eradicate extreme poverty falling short. >> three years ago, world leaders pledged to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030. a new report warns that 400 million people will still be living in extreme poverty by the year 2030. a person is considered to be in extreme poverty if he or she lives on less than one u.s. dollar $.90 per day. in africa, poverty is on the rise with africans accounting for two thirds of those living in extreme poverty.
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we report from nigeria which has the world's highest rate of extreme poverty. >> a laguna poverty. we are passing by people who live in inhumane surroundings. this family was evicted from their hot just like 10 the thousands of others. this father of five was already poor for the eviction. he said he had a likelihood. >> now we don't have enough food or house or boat or fishing or business. during the day, we can stay here to prepare one meal but at night we have to sleep outside in the rain. this is something no human being should experience. >> today's meal is tomato soup. this pot must feed several families in the neighborhood. this is just one family. an estimated 87 million people
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or half of nigeria's population are thought to be living on less than $1.90 per day. nigeria has taken over india with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty. these young men and women are volunteers and their slums. they are being trained how to let others know what rights they have before they are evicted. the ultimate goal is to stop extreme poverty from spreading. >> i want to change the poverty level in my community and other communities. >> that means knowing how to mobilize other people that lawmakers do their job and solve the deteriorating situation in slums. she says eviction creates more extreme poverty. >> unfortunately the government is not working with those people
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to eradicate poverty and help them find a solution to the situation. instead, the government is putting in place policies that criminalize the livelihoods of the urban poor and demolish and destroy their homes. >> the government wants to turn waterfront slums into attractive property. it says they must be shut down because they are a breeding ground for crime and harmful to the environment. for half of the residents on the brink of extreme poverty, the slums are their home. >> a boxer rematch is being called the fight of the century. the two middleweights met just under one year ago when the fight was controversial, three world title belts are on the line and one of the fighters is said to have a home crowd advantage. >> the crowd on saturday will be
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firmly in his camp. he will have plenty of mexican backing in las vegas. it will be 364 days since the controversial draw between the pair. after the decision, a judge step down from scoring major bouts. the counterpunch specialist refers to hit back in the ring. >> you already know if you follow my fighting career that i never like to talk. i do it in the rain. it is my job to perform in there. i hope everyone enjoys the huge fight and a huge victory for my fans and for all of mexico. >> his opponent is feared the world over for his ferocious punching power.
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despite having the better record , he sees this as his toughest challenge. it is rare in boxing fights live up to the hype. this rematch packs a punch. >> you are watching dw news from berlin. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around.
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